Life App for 12/31/16 to 1/6/17

December 30, 2016

A way to live on mission at home:Avoid being cruel to children, your own or any other children.

Based on Matthew 2:13-23

A way to live on mission at home based on Matthew 2:13-23, a reading from The Revised Common Lectionary for New Year’s Day and the First Sunday after Christmas, 1/1/17. A dream warns Joseph to take Mary and the baby, Jesus, to Egypt to escape Herod’s wrath. Herod hears the wise men tricked him; there is a child born to be King of the Jews; to protect his throne, Herod orders the killing of all children under two in Bethlehem. (There is no evidence this order of Herod is true. Herod did have a reputation for cruelty.) In a dream, Joseph hears Herod has died and the family returns to settle in Nazareth (Nazareth fits old prophecies.)